It sucks being President

Okay, by now the plans are drawn up, the options are on the table. The French tried it earlier and ended up with one dead hostage -with several very much alive. That looks like a good outcome and its upping the ante. Assuming you'll hit at the lowest hour we should all know what the President said in about four hours time. My guess is the Seals will take out the watch - all swift and silent like, and come on board. They have a choice - explosive entry: frame charge and/or stun grenades -or try to stay silent - NVGs, lasers, suppressed weapons. Either way the goal is to get one hostage out alive - the only one. If his captors die in the process - well so much the better. The 'maximum safety' option - 'they' should have gone somewhere else this morning - done something else for a living. Mess with the best - die like the rest. It is an important message, it is also a hell of a responsibility on the Seal team leader, his commander, and his commander in chief. One of the ideas behind elite forces is sheer wow factor. Bit of mystic, fearsome reputation, get it right it should be enough for the BGs to know you've left barracks. Brown trowser time, negotiations get realistic, people come out waving white flags. Unfortunately it takes a lot to impress these Somali boys. Wasn't it the US who bugged out sharpish shortly after that Black Hawk down incident? Somalia is a shite hole, sorry 'failed nation', no law worthy of the name. It you have nothing to lose, lots of wonga to gain, and, more worryingly, a track record of winning ..well worth a punt isn't it? I don't hold out much hope for negotiation, I put my trust in low penetration 9 mm ammunition. But then I was never likely to be a politician, I was the schmuck with the silenced MP5 waiting on the decision. Go Seals - for the sake of us all.

P.S. Am I the only who cannot resist crying "Arrrrrr!" every time the word Pirate is mentioned on the news?